manynovel Chapter 207 The Curtain Officially Opens
Chapter 207 The Curtain Officially Opens
But how to highlight the "most" love?
Holding hands, kissing on the cheek, hugging...? Is this enough?
Although it was a little clumsy and awkward at first, it wasn't difficult to get used to it.
Because Gaara cooperates with me very well.
Temari seemed to be hesitant to speak: "You...it turns out...I should have guessed it long ago. Alas."
She did keep her promise and did not stop us, but when she was sending us away from the Sand Village, Temari said she hoped to talk to me alone.
"Gaara has always been unhappy in the village..." Temari lowered her eyes and said, "After meeting you during the Chunin Exam, he changed a lot. I realized then that he could have grown up to be such a gentle person... After he left the Sand Village, I thought a lot. Maybe the Sand Village has caused him more pain than I have seen and known. Now that things have come to this, asking him to come back is already a very shameless thing to do. He chose you... chose his heart and the one he loves... As his sister, I will support him, because this may be one of the few things I can do for him."
I was touched, "Temari...Gaara will understand your love for him."
Temari shook her head, as if she had given up hope that her brother would come back and get close to her: "When he needed his family the most, I didn't do a good job."
She held my hand. Her green eyes, similar to Gaara's but darker, were earnest and sincere. "Anyway... I'm leaving Gaara in your care. Please... treat him well."
I said seriously, “I will.”
……
After leaving the Sand Village, I did not return to the Kirigakure Village in order to make it easier for me to study with Uchiha Itachi.
With Gaara and Tone following me, Zabuza and Haku have nothing to worry about.
I couldn't help but ask Uchiha Itachi: "Is Uchiha Madara good to you?"
"Why do you ask?"
"He suddenly came to me before and said that the fastest way for the Uchiha clan to become stronger is to kill the person they love most. Why did he say that?"
"..."
"Itachi-sensei?"
"Are you going to kill anyone?"
"I won't kill someone for this reason! It's too..."
I was about to say "weird", but when I saw Itachi's face and remembered that he killed his own parents, I suddenly became quiet.
After a moment, I said, "I'm just a little worried, because from his tone, he seems to force me... Has he ever forced you to kill the person you love most?"
"Do you trust Uchiha Madara?"
"I trust you more."
Uchiha Itachi paused, "Why?"
I lowered my head and said, "No reason."
His eyes stared at me quietly, saying nothing, but there was a suffocating pressure in them.
The more I expressed my trust in him, the more Uchiha Itachi seemed to put up a wall in his heart against me and distance himself from me.
For more than a year, I haven't found a chance to look him in the eye and open my Sharingan.
I also had a feeling that his teaching relationship with me would probably end one day soon.
When Naruto returned from Jiraiya, when Sasuke regained his freedom from Orochimaru...
Destiny will move one step closer to that critical node.
"Teacher Itachi..."
"Ah."
"Can I invite you to this summer's fireworks display?"
Uchiha Itachi looked at me. Sometimes, I always felt that his expression was actually very gentle, but the next second, I would think that his gentleness was just my illusion.
"Sorry, Chaolu," he reached out and tapped my forehead gently, "Maybe next time."
Thinking about it afterwards, Akatsuki had probably already started preparing to capture the tailed beast at that time.
It would be very strange for him to teach me as my teacher when Gaara is the One-Tail Jinchuriki beside me.
But he didn't tell me so directly. What he said was: "I have nothing to teach you anymore."
I looked at him and thought to myself, in the past two years or so, he has never once revealed his true colors to me.
He seemed to be completely unaware of the Amaterasu, Susanoo, Izanagi, and Izanami mentioned in the scroll, and kept it very secret.
People who are so reserved like this tell me that they have nothing more to teach me, but I don't believe it.
After he poked my forehead and declined my invitation, I pulled his sleeve and asked, "Can we meet again?"
Uchiha Itachi didn't say anything.
I looked at him, frowned, and said affirmatively: "We will definitely meet again."
"Goodbye may not be a good thing."
"It must be a good thing!" I said firmly, "Even if it's not a good thing, I will make it a good thing! Sasuke's things, your things, I will turn them into good things!"
Uchiha Itachi looked at me. Did he smile softly? Or was I having an illusion again?
"Goodbye, Chaolu."
——After that day, we never saw each other again.
If this were a novel, lines like this would appear at this moment, which would be more in line with the atmosphere.
I also thought I wouldn't see him again anytime soon.
But not long after, Uchiha Itachi appeared in front of me again. Before I had time to find the sad atmosphere when we last parted funny, I saw his partner beside him.
I almost smiled, but I immediately retracted it.
"Itachi, I'll leave the guy with the Sharingan to you. The One-Tail Jinchuriki," Hoshigaki Kisame carried Samehada on his shoulders and grinned, "Leave it to me."
Gaara frowned. He didn't know what Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame's goal was, but I knew - Akatsuki must have started hunting the tailed beasts.
As for the upcoming future, since it can determine the fate of countless people and since I bear the hopes of too many people, sometimes I feel as if I have seen a glimpse of some ancient behemoth. Before it even comes close, it already makes me tremble with fear and unable to move.
Because I have been deliberately avoiding a question all along.
What should I do with Shukaku, the one-tailed beast inside Gaara?
The scroll clearly states the purpose of the Akatsuki organization, and also clearly states what they will do to the tailed beasts - they want to collect all the tailed beasts and control the world with absolute power in order to achieve "peace".
But in the end he was stopped by Naruto.
But the nine tailed beasts finally gathered together and merged into a sacred tree called the "Ten Tails", summoning the goddess named Kaguya.
No one can seal Kaguya except Naruto and Sasuke working together.
Both Shikamaru and Orochimaru-sama have told me to let events unfold and not to interfere.
If I hadn't taken Gaara away, he would have been the Kazekage of the Sand Village at this moment. His being captured by the Akatsuki organization and then rescued was not something I should have cared about.
but……
Now he is by my side.
He is my companion.
It's my "favorite".
How could I stand by and watch him be captured by Akatsuki and then have the tailed beast extracted?
There is no precedent of a Jinchūriki surviving after extracting a tailed beast. I don't know why Gaara was able to survive, and I don't dare to gamble -
I've already intervened so much. If Gaara gets captured this time, what if he doesn't survive?
I also know that Uchiha Itachi will not show mercy.
Even if he is unwilling to do dirty work with blood on his hands, he will do it perfectly for the mission, to complete his goal, and to gain the trust of "Akatsuki".
The changes I made have created an irreconcilable conflict with the arrangements on the scroll.
This was the first time I had a direct confrontation with Lord Shikamaru and Orochimaru's will. After all, even defection was one of the alternative plans on the scroll.
If all the hard work of Shikamaru and Orochimaru goes to waste because of my willfulness...
I closed my eyes and made up my mind.
I will not waver or retreat any longer—
Even if it conflicts with the arrangements on the scroll, I will act according to my ideas!
Destiny will definitely flow in the direction I want!
"Gaara..." I whispered, "Wait for me for a moment. I will come to help you as soon as I deal with Uchiha Itachi."
Hoshigaki Kisame laughed out loud: "Little boy, you are quite arrogant!"
We separated the two battlefields.
Gaara brought Tone with him to lure Hoshigaki Kisame away, which was very risky, but if we didn't get rid of Uchiha Itachi first, even if he was just an assistant, his help to Hoshigaki Kisame would make us very difficult.
Uchiha's Sharingan can control the tailed beasts, Uchiha Madara can do it, but I don't know if Uchiha Itachi's eye power can do it.
But Hoshigaki Kisame certainly can't do that. Then Gaara's sleeping technique can come in handy. If he is in trouble, he can at least borrow the power of the one-tail.
Uchiha Itachi looked at me, and after making sure that Hoshigaki Kisame couldn't hear me, he said calmly: "I said that our meeting again may not be a good thing."
"I also said that I will definitely turn everything I hate into good things!" I opened my Sharingan and gave him a provocative smile: "You said you have nothing to teach me, then let me see if I can make you go all out this time!"